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2 unusual facts about Elst


Elst, Gelderland

H. J. Heinz Company's sauce factory for the European market is located south of the town centre.

Overbetuwe

It was formed on 1 January 2001 as a merger of three former municipalities: Elst, Heteren and Valburg.


Ayodhya: The Case Against the Temple

Elst also writes in detail about claims that certain Hindu rulers, including Pusyamitra Sunga, were iconoclasts; evidence to that effect had been previously presented by Romila Thapar, Richard Eaton and others.

Koenraad Elst reiterates his view that the Babri Mosque was built on an ancient Hindu temple, the Ram Janmabhoomi.

François Van der Elst

François J. C. Van Der Elst (born 1 December 1954 in Opwijk) is a former Belgian footballer, who played as a winger and forward.

Jef Geeraerts

The 13027 Geeraerts (1989 GJ4) is a Main-belt Asteroid discovered on April 3, 1989 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory named after Jef Geeraerts

Negationism in India: Concealing the Record of Islam

Elst claims that historians of the Aligarh school (e.g. Irfan Habib) or Indian Marxists (e.g. Romila Thapar) have resorted to history-rewriting: "Therefore, in 1982 the National Council of Educational Research and Training issued a directive for the rewriting of schoolbooks. Among other things, it stipulated that: "Characterization of the medieval period as a time of conflict between Hindus and Muslims is forbidden.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Limburg

On 23 October 2013, Tebartz van-Elst was suspended by Pope Francis as bishop of Limburg, and Wolfgang Rösch was named a new vicar general to administer the diocese in his absence.

Ženavlje

Ženavlje is known as the unplanned landing site of a stratospheric balloon with the Belgian pioneering balloonist Max Cosyns and his student Nérée van der Elst on 18 August 1934.


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